E-mail inbox assistant to reduce context switching

A computer system for processing of electronic messages, the computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to identify one or more electronic messages;
• program instructions to determine one or more e-mail characteristics respectively associated with the identified one or more electronic messages;
• program instructions to determine an estimated electronic message processing duration for the identified one or more electronic messages based, at least in part, on weighting factors that are associated with the determined one or more e-mail characteristics;
• program instructions to identify a first unscheduled time slot within an electronic calendar of the user;
• program instructions to schedule the identified one or more electronic messages within the identified first unscheduled time slot of the electronic calendar of the user;
• program instructions to create an electronic message folder within an e-mail interface of the user, wherein the electronic message folder is associated with a time slot scheduled for processing one or more scheduled electronic messages;
• program instructions to identify a first electronic message that includes a first category flag from among the one or more identified electronic messages;
• program instructions to add the one or more scheduled electronic messages associated with the scheduled time slot to the electronic message folder, wherein the program instructions to add the one or more scheduled electronic messages associated with the scheduled time slot to the electronic message folder further comprise:
• program instructions to determine whether the first electronic message that includes the first category flag is scheduled within the scheduled time slot;
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• program instructions to respond to determining that the first electronic message that includes the first category flag is scheduled within the scheduled time slot by excluding other electronic messages that include the first category flag from the scheduled time slot;
• program instructions to assign an indication to the electronic message folder that includes one or more scheduled electronic messages, wherein the indication assigned to the electronic message folder identifies the scheduled time slot of one or more electronic message of the electronic message folder and is depicted in the e-mail interface of the user;
• program instruction to respond to determining that the user receives an additional electronic message prior to processing at least one of the one or more scheduled electronic messages associated with the scheduled time slot by identifying a first unprocessed electronic message of the one or more scheduled electronic messages associated with the scheduled time slot, wherein the identified first unprocessed electronic message includes a category flag that is different than a respective category flag of the additional electronic message;
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• program instructions to reschedule the received additional electronic message and the first unprocessed electronic message to a second unscheduled time slot based on a determination that the second unscheduled time slot does not also include electronic messages with respective category flags that match the received additional electronic message and the first unprocessed electronic message.